The incident happened at the Sykies neighborhood of the Greek city.
Local sites report that the storm that struck on Thursday lunchtime and created huge problems.
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The incident happened at the Sykies neighborhood of the Greek city.
Local sites report that the storm that struck on Thursday lunchtime and created huge problems.
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Tropical/subtropical cyclone tracks in the Pacific Ocean, according to the IBTrACS database.
Tropical/subtropical cyclone tracks in the Pacific Ocean, according to the IBTrACS database.
The subtropical cyclone formed late last weekend several hundred miles west of the South American coast.
The advanced scatterometer aboard the EUMETSAT satellite found the system had a well-defined surface low, with winds of 40-45 mph and shallow thunderstorm activity surrounding but not in its center Tuesday.
These ingredients define the system as a subtropical storm, a system with characteristics of both a conventional tropical cyclone and a colder, non-tropical low-pressure system you may see over land or water in the middle latitudes.
This system formed in water temperatures between 64 and 68 degrees, which is usually not supportive of sufficient thunderstorm activity that would help build a subtropical or tropical cyclone.
In this case, as with many subtropical cyclones of this nature, it had some atmospheric support. This cyclone is in the midst of an upper-level trough, or cold pool, of low pressure, adding the instability needed for thunderstorms.
This system is spinning clockwise, typical of any storm in the Southern Hemisphere, as both high-pressure and low-pressure systems spin in the opposite direction as they do in the Northern Hemisphere.
Interestingly, if there was a cyclone season in that part of the world, this system would have nearly fallen outside of it. A cyclone in the southern Pacific occurring in May is like a tropical storm occurring in November in the Atlantic. If there was a peak month for activity surrounding South America, it would be in February or March, so this system is quite late.
How Rare Is This?
It may be one of a kind. No other recognized subtropical or tropical storm has been documented in that part of the world.
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Floods in San Polo, Tuscany, Italy, 08 May 2018.
Floods in San Polo, Tuscany, Italy, 08 May 2018.
The storm hit during the afternoon of 08 May, 2018, flooding areas near Sinalunga (Siena province), San Polo in Chianti (Florence) and Volterra (Pisa).
In San Polo, local civil protection said that two small rivers - the Robiana and the Ema - overflowed, and that roads, houses, shops and other businesses were damaged by the flood water that reached over 1 metre deep. Further damage was caused by a landslide which blocked a road just outside the town.
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Tana River floods, Kenya, May 2018.
Tana River floods, Kenya, May 2018.
The Patel Dam in Solai, Subukia Sub-County, Nakuru County, broke its banks at around 21:00 on Wednesday 09 May, 2018.
In a statement made soon after the dam break Governor Lee Kinyanjui said, "The water has caused huge destruction of both life and property. The extent of the damage is yet to be ascertained. The County Government of Nakuru, Kenya Red Cross and the local leadership are coordinating rescue operations....We assure residents that we are doing our best to evacuate affected families to safety and assist victims get medical attention."
SkyFox flew overhead showing the large mammal had been injured.
A team of 11 scientists from Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences performed a necropsy on the 44-foot adult female gray whale on Wednesday.
Farmers harvesting rice in open fields made up the majority of victims, Iftekharul Islam, a director at Bangladesh's disaster management department, told AFP.
"In the last 24 hours, 29 people have died from lightning in 12 districts. Almost all of them are farmers," he said.
Scores of people die every year after being struck by lightning during Bangladesh's wet season, which runs from April to October, but officials say the numbers are exceptionally high this year.
Islam said that more than 112 people had been killed in strikes in the first 10 days of May.
Comment: In nearby India on the same day a single bolt killed 4 in West Bengal while a woman was fatally hit in Madurai on Tuesday.
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The temblor struck about seven miles north of Cabazon.
The temblor struck about seven miles north of Cabazon.
Tuesday's temblor struck at 4:49 a.m. about seven miles north of Cabazon and 85 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was close to the San Gorgonio Pass, through which Interstate 10 connects Palm Springs with San Bernardino.
The strongest shaking - Intensity Level 6 - occurred in an uninhabited mountainous area in Riverside County. The cities of Riverside and San Bernardino felt only "light" shaking calculated as Intensity Level 4, while many areas in L.A. and Orange counties felt only "weak" Intensity Level 2 or 3 shaking.
There were no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake early warning system under development worked as expected, giving scientists in Pasadena - about 80 miles away from the epicenter - 26 seconds of warning before the shaking arrived, according to a Southern California Seismic Network report.
The quake was followed by dozens of smaller aftershocks, including a magnitude 3.2 at 4:51 a.m.
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Ghostly mirages that looked like a block of apartments appeared near a beach in Qingdao, east China. The mirages were visible for two hours and only a few people managed to capture them on camera.
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A Saint Paul Hotel doorman clears snow during a mid-April snowfall in Minneapolis. It was a cold, snowy month across the nation.
A Saint Paul Hotel doorman clears snow during a mid-April snowfall in Minneapolis. It was a cold, snowy month across the nation.
The evidence of a spring-deferred lay in a yellow layer on Thursday atop a Center City building.
Donald J. Dvorin, the region's official pollen counter, noticed it on the roof, above his office, where he collects samples to calculate the daily count. "We saw the pollen looking yellow," said Dvorin, a physician with the Asthma Center, a sure sign that "it's accumulating."
Since last week, the tree-pollen counts have been "extreme," the fallout from a particularly chilly April - around here and across the nation - that delayed the pollen season a good 10 days, he said.
Temperatures in the contiguous United States were 2.2 degrees below 20th century averages last month, making it the coldest April in 20 years, according to a government analysis released Tuesday.
Overall, it was the ninth-chilliest April in Pennsylvania in records dating to 1895, said the National Center for Environmental Information.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said at least nine quakes of magnitude 4.3 or greater struck the region beginning in the morning, including three of magnitude 5.2 to 5.6.
Civil defense director Jorge Melendez said at a news conference that 11 homes were destroyed and considerable damage was done to 180 more. Most of the structures affected were made of bahareque, a material composed of cane or sticks mixed with mud and straw.
The government was transporting tents to the zone to shelter residents left homeless.
An alert was declared for some municipalities in the departments of Chirilagua, San Miguel and La Union, and classes were suspended for Monday in those areas.
Melendez said one of the quakes unleashed landslides on a highway leading to Playa El Cuco, one of the most visited tourist beaches in the area.
USGS geophysicist Don Blakeman said the earlier quakes were likely foreshocks to the magnitude 5.6 event, which hit just after 1 p.m. local time. Its epicenter was located offshore in the Pacific, about 8 miles (12 kilometers) from the town of Intipuca, at a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers).
Comment: The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources tweeted yesterday: "Swarm in Chirilagua-Intipucá: Until 6:00 a.m. [12:00 GMT] on May 9 a total of 747 earthquakes have been recorded, 110 earthquakes felt:"
Seismic activity seems to be increasing recently. See also:
- Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hits off Papua New Guinea
- Rare shallow magnitude 4.5 earthquake hits off coast of Louisiana near New Orleans
- Strong shallow 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits off the Philippines
- Powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake, strongest since 1975, hits Hawaii's Big Island near erupting volcano
Comment: Latest toll is 41 dead from this latest calamity, bringing the death toll from flooding in Kenya in the last two months to about 170.